Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI rpool on USB flash in N40L?

2013-01-28 Thread Bentley, Dain
...@yahoo.com] Received: Sunday, 27 Jan 2013, 9:08am To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org [openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org] Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI rpool on USB flash in N40L? Several people have suggested FreeBSD for the OS for my N40L based ZFS server and using the internal USB socket

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI rpool on USB flash in N40L?

2013-01-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley
Several people have suggested FreeBSD for the OS for my N40L based ZFS server and using the internal USB socket w/ a flash drive for the OS However, after trying FreeBSD 9.0 installed to an HDD, I'm not enthused about having to relearn FreeBSD admin. And I'm not GUI admin inclined. I'd prefer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI rpool on USB flash in N40L?

2013-01-27 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-01-27 15:08, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Several people have suggested FreeBSD for the OS for my N40L based ZFS server and using the internal USB socket w/ a flash drive for the OS However, after trying FreeBSD 9.0 installed to an HDD, I'm not enthused about having to relearn FreeBSD

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI rpool on USB flash in N40L?

2013-01-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Sun, 1/27/13, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: OI may not play nicely by default with relocated (split-off) rootfs portions, see my notes and workarounds in bugtracker: https://www.illumos.org/issues/829 While my notes and patch (https://www.illumos.org/issues/829#note-15)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI rpool on USB flash in N40L?

2013-01-27 Thread andy thomas
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Several people have suggested FreeBSD for the OS for my N40L based ZFS server and using the internal USB socket w/ a flash drive for the OS However, after trying FreeBSD 9.0 installed to an HDD, I'm not enthused about having to relearn FreeBSD

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI rpool on USB flash in N40L?

2013-01-27 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-01-27 16:58, andy thomas wrote: 5. next, to preserve the state of /var and /tmp across reboots add this to your /etc/rc.shutdown.local script (you might need to create this if it doesn't exist): # Insert other shutdown procedures here tar czf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI rpool on USB flash in N40L?

2013-01-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley
a...@time-domain.co.uk wrote: From: andy thomas a...@time-domain.co.uk Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI rpool on USB flash in N40L? I found some USB drives were slower than others and some (eg a Verbatim black pinstripe USB stick, for example) would not accept a UFS filesystem at all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI rpool on USB flash in N40L?

2013-01-27 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-01-27 17:24, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Andy, Thanks. I'll be interested to find what your experience is. As it happens, I just ordered 3x2 TB a few seconds ago and will go w/ mirrored rpool in a small partition on each drive. I'm trying to get back to doing science rather than